Touch display device and method for touch detection

ABSTRACT

A touch display device and a method for touch detection are provided. The touch display device is formed by at least two spliced touch screens, and includes an obtaining module, configured to acquire report data of at least one touch screen of the touch display device, where the report data is generated by the at least one touch screen when the at least one touch screen is touched by a user; and a processing module, configured to perform coordinate conversion according to a splicing state and the report data of the touch screen sending the report data, to obtain at least one output coordinate corresponding to an entire display area of the touch display device.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is the U.S. national phase of PCT Application No.PCT/CN2018/117419 filed on Nov. 26, 2018, which claims priority toChinese Patent Application No. 201810373156.2 filed on Apr. 24, 2018,which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the field of touch displaytechnologies, in particular to a touch display device and a method fortouch detection.

BACKGROUND

With the rapid development of display technologies, an application scopeof large area display has become wider, and the large area display hasbecome a part of our life.

In the related technologies, some large area display devices are eachformed by splicing multiple independent screens, and currently, it isurgent to realize a touch control function for such large area displaydevices.

SUMMARY

In one respect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touchdisplay device, which is formed by at least two spliced touch screens,and the touch display device includes:

an obtaining module, configured to acquire report data of at least onetouch screen of the touch display device, wherein the report data isgenerated by the at least one touch screen when the at least one touchscreen is touched by a user; and

a processing module, configured to perform coordinate conversionaccording to a splicing state and the report data of the touch screensending the report data, to obtain at least one output coordinatecorresponding to an entire display area of the touch display device.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the processing module isconfigured to:

obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to a formula

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

in the formula, x refers to an abscissa of the corrected outputcoordinate, y refers to an ordinate of the corrected output coordinate,M refers to a total number of columns of touch screens of the touchdisplay device, N refers to a total number of rows of the touch screensof the touch display device, j refers to a column number of the touchscreen sending the report data in the touch display device, i refers toa row number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa of the report data, R_(i)refers to an ordinate of the report data and Int refers to roundingfunction.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the touch display devicefurther includes:

a configuration module, configured to configure identificationinformation for each touch screen of the touch display device before thereport data of the at least one touch screen of the touch display deviceis obtained; and

the processing module is configured to determine, according to theidentification information of the touch screen to which the report databelongs, a splicing position of the touch screen, and perform coordinateconversion, according to the report data and the splicing position ofthe touch screen to which the report data belongs, to obtain at leastone output coordinate.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the touch display devicefurther includes:

an output module, configured to convert the output coordinate into adata format compatible with a control board, and then output to thecontrol board such that the control board executes a touch operatinginstruction corresponding to the output coordinate;

where the control board pre-stores a mapping relationship between anoutput coordinate and a touch operating instruction, and determines thetouch operating instruction corresponding to the output coordinateaccording to the mapping relationship, and executes the touch operatinginstruction.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the at least two touchscreens of the touch display device are connected to each other inseries, and each of the at least two touch screens is configured withone obtaining module and one processing module, and the output moduleincludes a hub connecting the processing modules of the at least twotouch screens.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the at least two touchscreens of the touch display device are connected to each other inparallel, and the obtaining module, the processing module and the outputmodule are implemented as a microprocessor connected with the at leasttwo touch screens.

Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a method for touchdetection, applied to a touch display device formed by at least twospliced touch screens, and the method for touch detection includes:

obtaining report data of at least one touch screen of the touch displaydevice, wherein the report data is generated by the at least one touchscreen when the at least one touch screen is touched by a user; and

performing coordinate conversion according to a splicing state and thereport data of the touch screen sending the report data, to obtain atleast one output coordinate corresponding to an entire display area ofthe touch display device.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the performing coordinateconversion according to a splicing state and the report data of thetouch screen sending the report data, to obtain at least one outputcoordinate corresponding to an entire display area of the touch displaydevice includes:

obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to a formula

$\;\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

in the formula, x refers to an abscissa of the corrected outputcoordinate, y refers to an ordinate of the corrected output coordinate,M refers to a total number of columns of touch screens of the touchdisplay device, N refers to a total number of rows of the touch screensof the touch display device, j refers to a column number of the touchscreen sending the report data in the touch display device, i refers toa row number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa of the report data, R_(i)refers to an ordinate of the report data and Int refers to roundingfunction.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the method for touchdetection further includes:

configuring identification information for each touch screen of thetouch display device before the report data of the at least one touchscreen of the touch display device is obtained;

where the performing coordinate conversion according to a splicing stateand the report data of the touch screen includes:

determining, according to the identification information of the touchscreen to which the report data belongs, a splicing position of thetouch screen, and performing coordinate conversion, according to thereport data and the splicing position of the touch screen to which thereport data belongs, to obtain at least one output coordinate.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the method for touchdetection further includes:

converting the output coordinate into a data format compatible with acontrol board and then outputting to the control board such that thecontrol board executes a touch operating instruction corresponding tothe output coordinate;

where the control board pre-stores a mapping relationship between anoutput coordinate and a touch operating instruction, determines thetouch operating instruction corresponding to the output coordinateaccording to the mapping relationship, and executes the touch operatinginstruction.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the at least two touchscreens of the touch display device are connected to each other inseries; the performing coordinate conversion according to a splicingstate and the report data of the touch screen sending the report dataincludes: performing, by the touch screen locally, the coordinateconversion according to the report data of the touch screen.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the at least two touchscreens of the touch display device are connected to each other inparallel, and the touch display device further includes a processorconnected with the at least two touch screens; the obtaining report dataof at least one touch screen of the touch display device includes:collecting, by the processor, report data of each of the at least twotouch screens; and the performing coordinate conversion according to asplicing state and the report data of the touch screen sending thereport data includes: performing, by the processor, the coordinateconversion.

In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touchdisplay device, formed by at least two spliced touch screens, whichincludes: a processor, a memory, and a program stored in the memory andexecutable by the processor, and the method for touch detectionaccording to the embodiments of the present disclosure described aboveis implemented, when the program is executed by the processor.

Further, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a computerreadable storage medium having a program stored thereon, and the methodfor touch detection according to the embodiments of the presentdisclosure described above is implemented, when the program is executedby a processor.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a touch display deviceaccording to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a method for touch detectionaccording to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method for touch detectionaccording to some embodiments of the disclosure in a practicalapplication;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart of a method for touch detectionaccording to some embodiments of the disclosure in a practicalapplication;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a logical structure of a touchdisplay device according to some embodiments of the disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of spliced touch screens of a touchdisplay device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a logical structure of a touchdisplay device according to some embodiments of the disclosure; and

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a logical structure of a touchdisplay device according to some embodiments of the disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In order to make technical problems to be solved, technical solutionsand advantages of the present disclosure clearer, specific embodimentswill be described in detail hereinafter in conjunction with drawings. Inthe following description, specific details such as detailedconfigurations and components are provided merely to assist in acomprehensive understanding of the embodiments of the presentdisclosure. Therefore, it should be clear to those skilled in the artthat various changes and modifications can be made to the embodimentsdescribed herein without departing from the scope and spirit of thepresent disclosure. In addition, descriptions of known functions andconfigurations are omitted for clarity and conciseness.

It should be understood that, “one embodiment” or “an embodiment”throughout the specification means that specific features, structures,or characteristics relating to an embodiment are included in at leastone embodiment of the present disclosure. Therefore, “in one embodiment”or “in an embodiment” appearing throughout the specification does notnecessarily refer to the same embodiment. Furthermore, these specificfeatures, structures, or characteristics may be combined in one or moreembodiments in any suitable manner.

In various embodiments of the present disclosure, it should beunderstood that, a size of each sequence number in the followingprocesses does not mean an execution order, and an execution order ofeach process should be determined based on a function and an internallogic of the process, and should not be construed as limiting of animplementation process of the embodiment of the present disclosure.

For a spliced display device, embodiments of the present disclosureprovide a touch detection solution, which can realize a touch functionon the spliced display device.

In an aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touchdisplay device. The touch display device is formed by at least twospliced touch screens, and a shape of the touch display device isdetermined by a user according to use requirements and is not limitedherein; in some examples, as shown in FIG. 6, the touch display deviceincludes N*M spliced touch screens (i.e., P₁₁, . . . , P_(1M), . . . ,P_(N1), . . . , P_(NM)), where M is a total number of columns of thetouch screens of the touch display device, and N is a total number ofrows of the touch screens. As shown in FIG. 1, the touch display deviceincludes an obtaining module 11 and a processing module 12.

The obtaining module 11 is configured to obtain report data of at leastone touch screen of the touch display device.

The report data is generated by the at least one touch screen when theat least one touch screen is touched by a user, and may include, forexample, a report coordinate. The report coordinate refers to a touchcoordinate on the touch screen by the user; and the touch coordinatecorresponds to the touch screen, rather than a display area of the touchdisplay device. It can be known that, for a touch screen supportingmulti-touch, there may be more than one report coordinate.

The processing module 12 is configured to perform coordinate conversionaccording to a splicing state and the report data of the touch screensending the report data, to obtain at least one output coordinatecorresponding to an entire display area of the touch display device, andthe output coordinate is for executing a touch instruction.

According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, report data ofeach touch screen is converted into a corresponding output coordinate inthe entire display area, such that touch identification for the entiretouch display device is realized, a use benefit of the spliced displaydevice is improved, and therefore, the spliced display device brings ahigher practical value.

The touch display device of the embodiments of the present disclosurewill be described in detail below.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the touch display deviceincludes:

a configuration module, configured to configure identificationinformation for each touch screen of the touch display device before thereport data of the at least one touch screen of the touch display deviceis obtained.

Specifically, identification information configured for the each touchscreen corresponds to a splicing position of the each touch screen inthe touch display device. Touch screens of the touch display device maybe spliced flexibly, for example, through changing splicing positions ofsome touch screens, or increasing or decreasing the number of touchscreens of the touch display device. Configuration of identificationinformation may be performed for the touch screens, while splicing ofthe touch screens is completed. A splicing position of each touch screencan be determined based on the identification information of the eachtouch screen, such that report data of the touch screen can beaccurately converted into an output coordinate corresponding to theentire display area.

When the identification information is configured, the output coordinatewith respect to the entire display area may be determined according tothe report data of the touch screen.

Specifically, the processing module 12 may determine a splicing positionof a touch screen according to identification information of the touchscreen to which the report data belongs, and then perform coordinateconversion according to the report data and the determined splicingposition to obtain at least one output coordinate corresponding to thereport data.

As an example, it is assumed that the touch display device is formed byfour spliced touch screens, which are respectively located at foursplicing positions including an upper left splicing position, a lowerleft splicing position, an upper right splicing position and a lowerright splicing position.

Assuming that identification information for a touch screen at the upperleft position is L1 through configuring identification information, uponreceiving report data of the touch screen corresponding to L1, theprocessing module 12 may perform coordinate conversion according to areport coordinate in the report data and an upper left position of thetouch screen corresponding to L1 in an entire display area, to obtain anoutput coordinate of the report coordinate with respect to the entiredisplay area.

When determining the output coordinate, the output coordinate may befurther calibrated, in order to ensure an accuracy of touch recognition.

That is, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the processingmodule is configured to:

obtaining a corrected output coordinate according to a formula

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

in the formula, x refers to an abscissa of the corrected outputcoordinate, y refers to an ordinate of the corrected output coordinate,M refers to a total number of columns of touch screens of the touchdisplay device, N refers to a total number of rows of the touch screensof the touch display device, j refers to a column number of the touchscreen sending the report data in the touch display device, i refers toa row number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa of the report data, R_(i)refers to an ordinate of the report data and Int refers to roundingfunction. As described above, the report data may include the reportcoordinate which refers to a touch coordinate on the touch screen by theuser, and the touch coordinate corresponds to the touch screen, ratherthan the entire display area of the touch display device. That is, theabscissa represented by R_(j) is an abscissa in a coordinate systemestablished based on the touch screen sending the report data, and theordinate represented by the R_(i) is an ordinate in coordinate systemestablished based the touch screen sending the report data.

Through repeated practices, it is proved that an offset error existingin the output coordinate may be weakened through the formula.

Or, in some embodiment, the processing module is configured to obtainthe corrected output coordinate according to the following formula:

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{x_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {M - j} \right)/M}} + \left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}} \\{y = {{y_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {N - i} \right)/N}} + \left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

in the formula, x_(MAX) refers to an upper limit of the abscissa of thereport data of the touch screen sending the report data, and y_(MAX)refers to an upper limit of the ordinate of the report data of the touchscreen sending the report data. That is, x_(MAX) is a maximum value ofan abscissa of a single touch screen, and y_(MAX) is a maximum value ofan ordinate of the single touch screen.

After the output coordinate is corrected, a touch instruction may beexecuted based on the output coordinate.

Correspondingly, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, thetouch display device further includes:

an output module, configured to convert the output coordinate into adata format compatible with a control board, and output to the controlboard such that the control board executes a touch operating instructioncorresponding to the output coordinate.

The control board is a main board, which may pre-store a mappingrelationship between output coordinate and touch operating instruction.According to the mapping relationship, the control board determines andexecutes the corresponding touch operating instruction.

For example, in an entire display interface of the touch display device,an icon for an interface exit option falls on a touch screen A. Thecontrol board pre-stores a mapping relationship between a coordinate(which may be either one pre-set coordinate or multiple pre-setcoordinates) of the icon for the interface exit option relative to theentire display area and an interface exit instruction.

In a case that the user touches the touch screen A, the touch screen Asends report data, and the processing module 12 performs coordinateconversion according to the report data from the touch screen A todetermine an output coordinate of the touch position in the displayarea. When the output coordinate is a coordinate having a mappingrelationship with the interface exit instruction, the interface exitinstruction is correspondingly executed.

The touch display device of the embodiments of the present disclosurewill be described hereinafter by way of example with reference topractical applications.

In some practical applications, touch screens of the touch displaydevice according to the embodiments of the present disclosure areconnected to each other in series, and each touch screen is providedwith one obtaining module and one processing module.

In the touch display device of the embodiments of the disclosure, theprocessing modules of the touch screens are connected to a hub, and thehub is the output module described above. Reference may be made to FIG.7 for a schematic diagram showing a logical structure of the touchdisplay device.

After the configuration module configures the identification informationfor each touch screen, each touch screen obtains an output coordinate ofreport data of the each touch screen corresponding to the entire displayarea through converting based on the report data of the each touchscreen and a splicing position of the each touch screen corresponding tothe identification information, and corrects the obtained outputcoordinate. After the output coordinate is corrected, the correctedcoordinate is sent to the hub.

The hub is for collecting the corrected output coordinate sent by eachtouch screen, converting the corrected output coordinate into a dataformat compatible with the control board and sending to the controlboard, such that the control board executes a touch operatinginstruction corresponding to the output coordinate.

The control board may adopt a plug-and-play operation mode, and maydirectly execute a corresponding touch operating instruction accordingto the output coordinate; or, the control board may also adopt anon-plug-and-play operation mode, and a corresponding touch operatinginstruction only may be executed according to the output coordinate whena corresponding driver program is installed.

In general, different touch display devices may adopt differentcoordinate conversion methods. When the control board is installed withdifferent drivers, different touch recognition may be flexibly applied.

In some practical applications, the touch screens of the touch displaydevice according to the embodiments of the present disclosure areconnected to each other in parallel. The obtaining module, theprocessing module and the output module are implemented as amicroprocessor. Reference may be made to FIG. 8 for a schematic diagramshowing a logical structure of the touch display device.

After identification information is configured by the configurationmodule for each touch screen, and report data is generated by the eachtouch screen, the report data combined with the identificationinformation is directly sent to the microprocessor, and themicroprocessor performs coordinate conversion of the report data toobtain an output coordinate. Then the microprocessor corrects the outputcoordinate, converts the corrected output coordinate into a data formatcompatible with the control board and sends the converted outputcoordinate to the control board, such that the control board executes atouch operating instruction corresponding to the output coordinate.

In another aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure further providea method for touch detection, which is applied to the touch displaydevice. The touch display device is formed by at least two spliced touchscreens, and a shape of the touch display device is determined by a useraccording to use requirements and is not limited herein. As shown inFIG. 2, the method for touch detection includes step 21 to step 22.

In step 21, report data of at least one touch screen of the touchdisplay device is obtained, where the report data is generated by the atleast one touch screen when the at least one touch screen is touched bya user.

In step 22, coordinate conversion is performed according to a splicingstate and the report data of the touch screen sending the report data,to obtain at least one output coordinate corresponding to an entiredisplay area of the touch display device.

It can be seen that, the touch display device according to the aboveembodiments of the present disclosure may be an executive body of themethod for touch detection according to the embodiments of the presentdisclosure, thus the technical effect achieved by the touch displaydevice can also be realized by the method for touch detection.

The method for touch detection of the embodiments of the presentdisclosure will be described in detail below.

Specifically, the method for touch detection further includes step 20.

In step 20, identification information is configured for each touchscreen of the touch display device before the report data of the atleast one touch screen of the touch display device is obtained.

Specifically, the identification information configured for the eachtouch screen corresponds to a splicing position of the each touch screenin the touch display device. Touch screens of the touch display devicemay be spliced flexibly, for example, through changing splicingpositions of some touch screens, or increasing or decreasing the numberof touch screens of the touch display device. Configuration ofidentification information may be performed for touch screens, whensplicing of the touch screens is completed. A splicing position of eachtouch screen may be determined based on the identification informationof the each touch screen, such that report data of the each touch screenmay be accurately converted into an output coordinate corresponding tothe entire display area. In a case that the identification informationis configured, the output coordinate with respect to the entire displayarea may be determined according to the report data.

Specifically, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, when theabove steps are performed, a splicing position of a touch screen isdetermined according to identification information of the touch screento which report data belongs, and then coordinate conversion isperformed according to the report data and the determined splicingposition to obtain at least one output coordinate corresponding to thereport data.

As an example, it is assumed that the touch display device is formed byfour spliced touch screens, which are respectively located at foursplicing positions including an upper left splicing position, a lowerleft splicing position, an upper right splicing position and a lowerright splicing position.

Assuming that identification information for a touch screen at the upperleft position is L1 through configuring identification information, uponreceiving report data of the touch screen corresponding to L1, theprocessing module 12 may perform coordinate conversion according to areport coordinate in the report data and an upper left position of thetouch screen corresponding to L1 in an entire display area, to obtain anoutput coordinate of the report coordinate with respect to the entiredisplay area.

After the output coordinate is determined, the output coordinate may befurther calibrated, in order to ensure an accuracy of touch recognition.

That is, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the step 22 mayspecifically include:

obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to a formula

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

in the formula, x refers to an abscissa of the corrected outputcoordinate, y refers to an ordinate of the corrected output coordinate,M refers to a total number of columns of touch screens of the touchdisplay device, N refers to a total number of rows of the touch screensof the touch display device, j refers to a column number of the touchscreen sending the report data in the touch display device, i refers toa row number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa of the report data, R_(i)refers to an ordinate of the report data and Int refers to roundingfunction.

Through repeated practices, it is proved that an offset error existingin the output coordinate may be weakened through the formula.

After the output coordinate is corrected, a touch instruction may beexecuted based on the corrected output coordinate.

Correspondingly, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, themethod for touch detection further includes step 23.

In the step 23, the output coordinate is converted into a data formatcompatible with a control board, and is outputted to the control board,such that the control board executes a touch operating instructioncorresponding to the output coordinate.

The control board pre-stores a mapping relationship between an outputcoordinate and a touch operating instruction, determines a touchoperating instruction corresponding to the output coordinate accordingto the mapping relationship, and executes the touch operatinginstruction.

For example, in an entire display interface of the touch display device,an interface exit option falls on a touch screen A. The control boardpre-stores a coordinate (which may be either one pre-set coordinate ormultiple pre-set coordinates) of the interface exit option relative tothe entire display area.

In a case that the user touches the touch screen A, the touch screen Asends report data, and the method for touch detection performscoordinate conversion according to the report data from the touch screenA to determine an output coordinate of the touch position correspondingto the display area. When the output coordinate is the coordinate storedby the control board for the interface exit option, the touchinstruction corresponding to the interface exit option iscorrespondingly executed.

The method for touch detection of the embodiments of the presentdisclosure will be described hereinafter by way of example withreference to practical applications.

In some practical applications, the touch screens of the touch displaydevice according to the embodiments of the present disclosure areconnected to each other in series, and each touch screen is configuredwith one obtaining module and one processing module.

In the touch display device of the embodiments of the disclosure, a hubis connected to the processing module of each touch screen, and the hubis the output module described above.

As shown in FIG. 3, a method for touch detection of the embodiments ofthe present disclosure includes:

configuring, by a touch screen, identification information of the touchscreen locally;

performing, by the touch screen, coordinate conversion locally (that is,a touch driver end) according to report data of the touch screen;

collecting output coordinate of each touch screen via a hub;

converting the collected output coordinate into a data format compatiblewith a control board; and

outputting the converted output coordinate to the control board.

The identification information may be an ID identifier associated with asplicing position.

The performing, by the touch screen, coordinate conversion locallyaccording to report data of the touch screen may include:

reading an address number of a report coordinate (Rj,Ri) which is local;and

performing coordinate conversion according to the report coordinate (Rj,Ri) to obtain an output coordinate, which may specifically include:obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to a formula

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

A data signal type of the output coordinate includes but not limited toUSB (Universal Serial Bus) data, I2C (I2C is a simple, two-way two-wiresynchronous serial bus developed by Philips), SPI (Serial PeripheralInterface) data and the like.

The control board may be either a plug-and-play control board or anon-plug-and-play control board (for which a driver is required to beinstalled).

In some practical applications, touch screens of the touch displaydevice provided by the embodiments of the disclosure are connected toeach other in parallel, and the obtaining module, the processing moduleand the output micro-module are implemented as a microprocessorconnected with each of the touch screens.

That is, each touch screen directly sends generated report data to themicroprocessor respectively, and the microprocessor performs coordinateconversion of the report data for each touch screen to obtain an outputcoordinate. Further, the microprocessor may further correct the outputcoordinate, convert the corrected output coordinate into a data formatcompatible with the control board and send to the control board, suchthat the control board executes a touch operating instructioncorresponding to the output coordinate.

As shown in FIG. 4, a method for touch detection includes:

configuring, by a touch screen, identification information of the touchscreen locally;

sending report date of each control screen to a microprocessor;

collecting, by the microprocessor, the report data of each touch screen,and performing coordinate conversion;

converting, by the microprocessor, the collected output coordinate intoa data format compatible with a control board; and

sending the converted output coordinate to the control board.

The identification information may be an ID identifier associated with asplicing position.

The microprocessor may be one of an MCU (micro control unit), a CPU(central processing unit), an MOC (main operation controller) or may bea set of at least one of the foregoing. The report data includes but isnot limited to RS232 interface data, RS422 interface data, RS485interface data, or UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver andTransmitter) data, SSI (Synchronous Serial Interface) data, CAN(Controller Area Network) data and the like.

The collecting, by the microprocessor, report data of the each touchscreen and performing coordinate conversion may include: performingcoordinate transformation according to a report coordinate (Rj, Ri) inthe report data to obtain an output coordinate, which may specificallyinclude: obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to aformula

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

The control board may be either a plug-and-play control board or anon-plug-and-play control board (in which a driver is required to beinstalled).

In addition, as shown in FIG. 5, another embodiment of the presentdisclosure further provides a touch display device 500, including aprocessor 51, a memory 52, and a computer program stored in the memory52 and executable by the processor. When the computer program isexecuted by the processor 51, the computer program implements followingsteps:

obtaining report data of at least one touch screen of the touch displaydevice, where the report data is generated by the at least one touchscreen when the at least one touch screen is touched by a user; and

performing coordinate conversion according to a splicing state and thereport data of the touch screen sending the report data, to obtain atleast one output coordinate corresponding to an entire display area ofthe touch display device.

The processor 51 and the memory 52 are connected through a businterface. The bus interface may include any number of interconnectedbuses and bridges. Various circuits of one or more processorsrepresented by the processor 51 and a memory represented by the memory52 are linked together. The bus architecture may also link togethervarious other circuits such as a peripheral device, a voltage regulator,a power management circuit and the like, which is well known in the art,and therefore will not be further described herein.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the computer program,when executed by the processor 51, may implement the following step:

obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to a formula

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

in the formula, x refers to an abscissa of the corrected outputcoordinate, y refers to an ordinate of the corrected output coordinate,M refers to a total number of columns of touch screens of the touchdisplay device, N refers to a total number of rows of the touch screensof the touch display device, j refers to a column number of the touchscreen sending the report data in the touch display device, i refers toa row number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa of the report data, R_(i)refers to an ordinate of the report data and Int refers to roundingfunction.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the computer program,when executed by the processor 51, may implement the following step:

configuring identification information for each touch screen of thetouch display device before the report data of the at least one touchscreen of the touch display device is obtained.

The step of the processor 51 performing coordinate conversion accordingto a splicing state and the report data of the touch screen includes:

determining, according to the identification information of the touchscreen to which the report data belongs, a splicing position of thetouch screen, and performing coordinate conversion according to thereport data and the determined splicing position to obtain at least oneoutput coordinate corresponding.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the computer program,when executed by the processor 51, further implements the followingstep:

converting the output coordinate into a data format compatible with acontrol board and outputting to the control board, such that the controlboard executes a touch operating instruction corresponding to the outputcoordinate;

the control board pre-stores a mapping relationship between an outputcoordinate and a touch operating instruction, determines a touchoperating instruction corresponding the output coordinate according tothe mapping relationship, and executes the touch operating instruction.

In addition, another embodiment of the present disclosure provides acomputer-readable storage medium having a computer program storedthereon, the computer program, when executed by a processor, implementsfollowing steps:

obtaining report data of at least one touch screen of the touch displaydevice, where the report data is generated by the at least one touchscreen when the at least one touch screen is touched by a user; and

performing coordinate conversion according to a splicing state and thereport data of the touch screen sending the report data, to obtain atleast one output coordinate corresponding to an entire display area ofthe touch display device.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the computer program,when executed by the processor, may implement the following step:

obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to a formula

$\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{\left( {M - j} \right)/M} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}}} \\{y = {{\left( {N - i} \right)/N} + {I\; n\; t\;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}}\end{matrix};} \right.$

in the formula, x refers to an abscissa of the corrected outputcoordinate, y refers to an ordinate of the corrected output coordinate,M refers to a total number of columns of touch screens of the touchdisplay device, N refers to a total number of rows of the touch screensof the touch display device, j refers to a column number of the touchscreen sending the report data in the touch display device, i refers toa row number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa of the report data, R_(i)refers to an ordinate of the report data and Int refers to roundingfunction.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the computer program,when executed by the processor, further implements following steps:

configuring identification information for each touch screen of thetouch display device before the report data of the at least one touchscreen of the touch display device is obtained.

The computer program is executed by the processor to realize theperforming the coordinate conversion according to the splicing state andthe report data of the touch screen, which specifically includes:

determining, according to the identification information of the touchscreen to which the report data belongs, a splicing position of thetouch screen, and performing coordinate conversion according to thereport data and the determined splicing position to obtain at least oneoutput coordinate.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the computer program,when executed by the processor, further implements following steps:

converting the output coordinate into a data format compatible with acontrol board and outputting to the control board, such that the controlboard executes a touch operating instruction corresponding to the outputcoordinate;

the control board pre-stores a mapping relationship between an outputcoordinate and a touch operating instruction, determines a touchoperating instruction corresponding to the output coordinate accordingto the mapping relationship, and executes the touch operatinginstruction.

The above embodiments are merely optional embodiments of the presentdisclosure. It should be noted that various improvements andmodifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departingfrom the principle of the present disclosure, and these improvements andmodifications shall also fall within the scope of the presentdisclosure.

Unless otherwise defined, any technical or scientific terms used in thepresent disclosure shall have the common meaning understood by a personof ordinary skills. Term such as “including” and the like in the presentdisclosure means that an element or an article preceding the termcontains an element or an article or an equivalent thereof behind theterm, and does not exclude existence of other elements or articles.

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 15. A touch display device, comprising: at least twospliced touch screens; an obtaining circuit, configured to acquirereport data of at least one touch screen of the touch display device,wherein the report data is generated by the at least one touch screenwhen the at least one touch screen is touched; and a processing circuit,configured to perform coordinate conversion according to a splicingstate and the report data of the touch screen sending the report data,to obtain at least one output coordinate corresponding to an entiredisplay area of the touch display device.
 16. The touch display deviceaccording to claim 15, wherein the at least two touch screens of thetouch display device are connected to each other in series, and each ofthe at least two touch screens is configured with one obtaining circuitand one processing circuit; and the performing coordinate conversionaccording to a splicing state and the report data of the touch screensending the report data comprises: performing, by the touch screenlocally, the coordinate conversion according to the report data of thetouch screen, via the processing circuit.
 17. The touch display deviceaccording to claim 15, wherein the at least two touch screens of thetouch display device are connected to each other in parallel, and theobtaining circuit and the processing circuit are implemented as amicroprocessor connected with the at least two touch screens; theobtaining report data of at least one touch screen of the touch displaydevice comprises: collecting, by the microprocessor, report data of eachof the at least two touch screens; and the performing coordinateconversion according to a splicing state and the report data of thetouch screen sending the report data comprises: performing, by themicroprocessor, the coordinate conversion.
 18. The touch display deviceaccording to claim 16, wherein the performing coordinate conversionaccording to a splicing state and the report data of the touch screensending the report data, to obtain at least one output coordinatecorresponding to an entire display area of the touch display devicecomprises: obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to aformula $\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{x_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {M - j} \right)/M}} + \;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}} \\{y = {{y_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {N - i} \right)/N}} + \;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}\end{matrix};} \right.$ where, in the formula, x refers to an abscissaof the corrected output coordinate, y refers to an ordinate of thecorrected output coordinate, M refers to a total number of columns oftouch screens of the touch display device, N refers to a total number ofrows of the touch screens of the touch display device, j refers to acolumn number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, i refers to a row number of the touch screen sending thereport data in the touch display device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa ofthe report data, R_(i) refers to an ordinate of the report data, x_(MAX)refers to an upper limit of the abscissa of the report data of the touchscreen sending the report data, and y_(MAX) refers to an upper limit ofthe ordinate of the report data of the touch screen sending the reportdata.
 19. The touch display device according to claim 17, wherein theperforming coordinate conversion according to a splicing state and thereport data of the touch screen sending the report data, to obtain atleast one output coordinate corresponding to an entire display area ofthe touch display device comprises: obtaining the corrected outputcoordinate according to a formula $\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{x_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {M - j} \right)/M}} + \;\left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}} \\{y = {{y_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {N - i} \right)/N}} + \;\left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}\end{matrix};} \right.$ where, in the formula, x refers to an abscissaof the corrected output coordinate, y refers to an ordinate of thecorrected output coordinate, M refers to a total number of columns oftouch screens of the touch display device, N refers to a total number ofrows of the touch screens of the touch display device, j refers to acolumn number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, i refers to a row number of the touch screen sending thereport data in the touch display device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa ofthe report data, R_(i) refers to an ordinate of the report data, x_(MAX)refers to an upper limit of the abscissa of the report data of the touchscreen sending the report data, and y_(MAX) refers to an upper limit ofthe ordinate of the report data of the touch screen sending the reportdata.
 20. The touch display device according to claim 16, furthercomprising: a configuration circuit, configured to configureidentification information for each touch screen of the touch displaydevice; wherein the performing coordinate conversion according to asplicing state and the report data of the touch screen sending thereport data comprises: determining, according to the identificationinformation of the touch screen to which the report data belongs, asplicing position of the touch screen, and perform coordinateconversion, according to the report data and the splicing position ofthe touch screen to which the report data belongs, to obtain at leastone output coordinate.
 21. The touch display device according to claim17, further comprising: a configuration circuit, configured to configureidentification information for each touch screen of the touch displaydevice; wherein the performing coordinate conversion according to asplicing state and the report data of the touch screen sending thereport data comprises: determining, according to the identificationinformation of the touch screen to which the report data belongs, asplicing position of the touch screen, and perform coordinateconversion, according to the report data and the splicing position ofthe touch screen to which the report data belongs, to obtain at leastone output coordinate.
 22. The touch display device according to claim16, further comprising: an output circuit, configured to convert theoutput coordinate into a data format compatible with a control board,and then output to the control board, such that the control boardexecutes a touch operating instruction corresponding to the outputcoordinate, and the output circuit comprises a hub connecting theprocessing circuits of the at least two touch screens; wherein thecontrol board pre-stores a mapping relationship between an outputcoordinate and a touch operating instruction, determines the touchoperating instruction corresponding to the output coordinate accordingto the mapping relationship, and executes the touch operatinginstruction.
 23. The touch display device according to claim 17, furthercomprising: an output circuit, configured to convert the outputcoordinate into a data format compatible with a control board, and thenoutput to the control board, such that the control board executes atouch operating instruction corresponding to the output coordinate, andthe obtaining circuit, the processing circuit and the output circuit areimplemented as the microprocessor connected with the at least two touchscreen; wherein the control board pre-stores a mapping relationshipbetween an output coordinate and a touch operating instruction,determines the touch operating instruction corresponding to the outputcoordinate according to the mapping relationship, and executes the touchoperating instruction.
 24. A method for touch detection, applied to atouch display device comprising at least two spliced touch screens,comprising: obtaining report data of at least one touch screen of thetouch display device, wherein the report data is generated by the atleast one touch screen when the at least one touch screen is touched;and performing coordinate conversion according to a splicing state andthe report data of the touch screen sending the report data, to obtainat least one output coordinate corresponding to an entire display areaof the touch display device.
 25. The method for touch detectionaccording to claim 24, wherein the performing coordinate conversionaccording to a splicing state and the report data of the touch screensending the report data, to obtain at least one output coordinatecorresponding to an entire display area of the touch display devicecomprises: obtaining the corrected output coordinate according to aformula $\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{x_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {M - j} \right)/M}} + \left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}} \\{y = {{y_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {N - i} \right)/N}} + \left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}\end{matrix};} \right.$ where, in the formula, x refers to an abscissaof the corrected output coordinate, y refers to an ordinate of thecorrected output coordinate, M refers to a total number of columns oftouch screens of the touch display device, N refers to a total number ofrows of the touch screens of the touch display device, j refers to acolumn number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, i refers to a row number of the touch screen sending thereport data in the touch display device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa ofthe report data, R_(i) refers to an ordinate of the report data, x_(MAX)refers to an upper limit of the abscissa of the report data of the touchscreen sending the report data, and y_(MAX) refers to an upper limit ofthe ordinate of the report data of the touch screen sending the reportdata.
 26. The method for touch detection according to claim 24, furthercomprising: configuring identification information for each touch screenof the touch display device before the report data of the at least onetouch screen of the touch display device is acquired; wherein theperforming coordinate conversion according to a splicing state and thereport data of the touch screen comprises: determining, according to theidentification information of the touch screen to which the report databelongs, a splicing position of the touch screen, and performingcoordinate conversion, according to the report data and the splicingposition of the touch screen to which the report data belongs, to obtainat least one output coordinate.
 27. The method for touch detectionaccording to claim 24, further comprising: converting the outputcoordinate into a data format compatible with a control board and thenoutputting to the control board, such that the control board executes atouch operating instruction corresponding to the output coordinate;wherein the control board pre-stores a mapping relationship between anoutput coordinate and a touch operating instruction, determines thetouch operating instruction corresponding to the output coordinateaccording to the mapping relationship, and executes the touch operatinginstruction.
 28. The method for touch detection according to claim 24,wherein the at least two touch screens of the touch display device areconnected to each other in series; the performing coordinate conversionaccording to a splicing state and the report data of the touch screensending the report data comprises: performing, by the touch screenlocally, the coordinate conversion according to the report data of thetouch screen.
 29. The method for touch detection according to claim 24,wherein the at least two touch screens of the touch display device areconnected to each other in parallel, and the touch display devicefurther comprises a processor connected with the at least two touchscreens; the obtaining report data of at least one touch screen of thetouch display device comprises: collecting, by the processor, reportdata of each of the at least two touch screens; and the performingcoordinate conversion according to a splicing state and the report dataof the touch screen sending the report data comprises: performing, bythe processor, the coordinate conversion.
 30. A touch display device,comprising: at least two spliced touch screens, a processor, a memory,and a program stored in the memory and executable by the processor,wherein, when the program is executed by the processor, the followingsteps are performed: obtaining report data of at least one touch screenof the touch display device, wherein the report data is generated by theat least one touch screen when the at least one touch screen is touched;and performing coordinate conversion according to a splicing state andthe report data of the touch screen sending the report data, to obtainat least one output coordinate corresponding to an entire display areaof the touch display device.
 31. The touch display device according toclaim 30, wherein, when the program is executed by the processor, thefollowing steps are performed: obtaining the corrected output coordinateaccording to a formula $\left\{ {\begin{matrix}{x = {{x_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {M - j} \right)/M}} + \left( {R_{j}/M} \right)}} \\{{y = {{y_{MAX} \cdot {\left( {N - i} \right)/N}} + \left( {R_{i}/N} \right)}}\ }\end{matrix};} \right.$ where, in the formula, x refers to an abscissaof the corrected output coordinate, y refers to an ordinate of thecorrected output coordinate, M refers to a total number of columns oftouch screens of the touch display device, N refers to a total number ofrows of the touch screens of the touch display device, j refers to acolumn number of the touch screen sending the report data in the touchdisplay device, i refers to a row number of the touch screen sending thereport data in the touch display device, R_(j) refers to an abscissa ofthe report data, R_(i) refers to an ordinate of the report data, x_(MAX)refers to an upper limit of the abscissa of the report data of the touchscreen sending the report data, and y_(MAX) refers to an upper limit ofthe ordinate of the report data of the touch screen sending the reportdata.
 32. The touch display device according to claim 30, wherein, whenthe program is executed by the processor, the following steps areperformed: configuring identification information for each touch screenof the touch display device before the report data of the at least onetouch screen of the touch display device is acquired; wherein theperforming coordinate conversion according to a splicing state and thereport data of the touch screen comprises: determining, according to theidentification information of the touch screen to which the report databelongs, a splicing position of the touch screen, and performingcoordinate conversion, according to the report data and the splicingposition of the touch screen to which the report data belongs, to obtainat least one output coordinate.
 33. The touch display device accordingto claim 30, wherein, when the program is executed by the processor, thefollowing steps are performed: converting the output coordinate into adata format compatible with a control board and then outputting to thecontrol board, such that the control board executes a touch operatinginstruction corresponding to the output coordinate; wherein the controlboard pre-stores a mapping relationship between an output coordinate anda touch operating instruction, determines the touch operatinginstruction corresponding to the output coordinate according to themapping relationship, and executes the touch operating instruction. 34.A computer readable storage medium, having a program stored thereon,wherein the method for touch detection according to claim 24 isimplemented, when the program is executed by a processor.